No. I'm not leaving. I told you I would stay with you until the very end.
I keep my promises. I always keep my promises, if I can help it. It's important to me that you recognise that I won't break a vow to you because, while I am a generally untrustworthy person and a liar, when I make promises, I mean them.
ughhh, sorry for this tagstopthat_destroSeptember 28 2011, 14:29:55 UTC
Yes, those hysterical muggles' reactions to something all too similar to past traumatic experiences involving 'harmless' love potions are so inconvenient. I'm sorry they hurt your feelings.
After all, it's not like an actual rapist could use them to lower the inhibitions of somebody who had a slight attraction to them that they didn't want to act on and wouldn't have acted on without that extra little kick. But that's not real rape, is it, because clearly the victim wanted it all along.
I understand your issues, but placing blame for rape on anyone but the rapist is wrong.
If someone uses a gun for murder, you don't blame the manufacturer. I feel you're simply scapegoating me for a hypothetical situation instead of putting blame where it's due.
I created a potion, and that was wrong. I accepted responsibility for it and attempted to make amends.
However, it does not make me a rapist.
[OOC: If you want to just assume the conversation was had, incidentally, I'm fine with that. We can hash it out over IM or something.]
No, actually, I agree on that point, which is why I never called you a rapist to begin with. [At least, errr NOT TO MY MEMORY.] But neither can I stand to listen to you try to dismiss people's anger on some inane anti-wizard 'prejudice'. Their fears were justified.
[OOC: I can do that if you want, although Rex is gonna pull back from actual rape talk from here on out, since he doesn't really think of Snape as a rapist.]
I would agree with you if I wasn't currently dealing with someone behaving on what I perceive to be just such an 'inane anti-wizard prejudice'.
The above situation is an example and lead-in to my point. Before you (not you, specifically, but generally you people) accuse a wizard of misdeeds simply because he happens to be a wizard, regardless of his guilt, get your story straight.
[OOC: It wasn't Rex. And I'm okay with either. I'm sorry if the post upset you. :c]
SUCH a big nerve got struck.feels_no_loveSeptember 28 2011, 16:07:36 UTC
You're not the only person here who has been accused of being or equated with a rapist on the flimsiest of pretenses. If someone attacks your reputation like that, I think you're perfectly entitled to refuse to treat them. You're not a rapist or an abettor of rape for making a crush potion. And you already apologized for that magical mischief, just as I once apologized for saying the wrong thing. The matter should be closed once such things are done.
I appreciate your vote of confidence, but I suspect it will do me no good.
Those who hold such an opinion of me will be unlikely to undergo a change of heart because of the above. In fact, I may have only caused more harm in stating my views, as they will now feel obliged to fall back on their convictions, how ever misguided and incorrect, rather than admitting wrongdoing.
Of course. After a while you just have to ignore the accusations. My accuser is still slithering around trying to poison people against me, telling them that I'm a horrible vampire who is going to steal their free will, et cetera. I try to dismiss him when it is brought up to me, merely because I don't feel like spending a week in Zero for defending my honor.
I didn't have a deal either, not for a good long while. I graduated two inmates without having one, which makes me wonder if the Admiral would give me something retroactively. But I really don't need anything other than having my life extended to match yours so you don't have to live without me, but frankly, I don't know what travelling in time and the mayflies have done to my DNA so there's that.
Also, I really like arsehole older men, and always have. It amuses me you find it thrilling.
Do you want to leave? I can't leave. I promised Mozenrath I would stay.
If you wish to leave without me, it would -
It would make me disengage emotionally from most of the people on the Barge, cause me to behave with complete disregard for the feelings of others, and I would withdraw socially. I would probably resent both Mozenrath and Black, and would miss you terribly. I would also probably stop sleeping, or at least stop sleeping on the bed.
But I would accept it and not argue because I know you wouldn't go unless it was necessary.
No, I don't want to leave. I wish that you would stop thinking I want to. You are one of the few people I feel safe complaining to about anything because I know you won't judge me for doing it. But it makes me worry that it upsets you and now I'm probably going to stop doing it again.
The only way I can see myself leaving now before Mozenrath and Sirius leave is if I suddenly end up pregnant. I don't think I can become pregnant here, but if I did, I'd have to go home because it's definitely not safe to be here and pregnant.
But I would expect you to stay here with Mozenrath because he needs you, and the Admiral can make it so that no time has passed for me since you left.
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I keep my promises. I always keep my promises, if I can help it. It's important to me that you recognise that I won't break a vow to you because, while I am a generally untrustworthy person and a liar, when I make promises, I mean them.
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After all, it's not like an actual rapist could use them to lower the inhibitions of somebody who had a slight attraction to them that they didn't want to act on and wouldn't have acted on without that extra little kick. But that's not real rape, is it, because clearly the victim wanted it all along.
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If someone uses a gun for murder, you don't blame the manufacturer. I feel you're simply scapegoating me for a hypothetical situation instead of putting blame where it's due.
I created a potion, and that was wrong. I accepted responsibility for it and attempted to make amends.
However, it does not make me a rapist.
[OOC: If you want to just assume the conversation was had, incidentally, I'm fine with that. We can hash it out over IM or something.]
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[OOC: I can do that if you want, although Rex is gonna pull back from actual rape talk from here on out, since he doesn't really think of Snape as a rapist.]
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The above situation is an example and lead-in to my point. Before you (not you, specifically, but generally you people) accuse a wizard of misdeeds simply because he happens to be a wizard, regardless of his guilt, get your story straight.
[OOC: It wasn't Rex. And I'm okay with either. I'm sorry if the post upset you. :c]
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Those who hold such an opinion of me will be unlikely to undergo a change of heart because of the above. In fact, I may have only caused more harm in stating my views, as they will now feel obliged to fall back on their convictions, how ever misguided and incorrect, rather than admitting wrongdoing.
As people do.
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Also, I really like arsehole older men, and always have. It amuses me you find it thrilling.
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If you wish to leave without me, it would -
It would make me disengage emotionally from most of the people on the Barge, cause me to behave with complete disregard for the feelings of others, and I would withdraw socially. I would probably resent both Mozenrath and Black, and would miss you terribly. I would also probably stop sleeping, or at least stop sleeping on the bed.
But I would accept it and not argue because I know you wouldn't go unless it was necessary.
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The only way I can see myself leaving now before Mozenrath and Sirius leave is if I suddenly end up pregnant. I don't think I can become pregnant here, but if I did, I'd have to go home because it's definitely not safe to be here and pregnant.
But I would expect you to stay here with Mozenrath because he needs you, and the Admiral can make it so that no time has passed for me since you left.
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First, don't stop complaining to me. Ever. It doesn't upset me.
Second, tell me you're not pregnant. I have an overwhelming need to see it in print.
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